COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - The Corrections Department announced that James Earl Reed was executed at 11:27pm Friday.
(sniffle, weep, sniffle, weep, sniffle) Happy endings always make me cry.
Never give your son the middle name “Earl”.
They still fry’em in SC? Cool.
“Killing is always wrong.”
From the “High Ground” as usual.....These are the same people who will let Terrorists attack us and then blame us for the attack.
“War is always wrong.”
Maybe she shoulda told this to "ol' Earl" before he killed those folks.
These idiots find it shocking that there are consequenses for murder. Fortunately, not as SHOCKING as "Earl" did.
James Earl Ray. James Earl Carter. Now James Earl Reed. James Earl never had a chance, did he?
Doncha know he was "retarded"?...poor poor African-American victim of the white judicial system. He just didn't realize that putting a bullet in between the eyes of somebody is wrong.... cause it's whitey's fault.
yawn
We should let the jihadist take over for a month, clear out our death row's then thank them and send them on their way.
http://www.ccadp.org/jamesearlreed.htm
Betcha she has no problem with abortion, however.
I thought the SCOTUS settled the "cruel and unusual" question just recently by approving the method in which a particular state (Kentucky,I think) executed prisoners.Or was this dame arguing that the *chair* is cruel and unusual? In SC does a prisoner have a choice of methods and,if so,is lethal injection one of the options?
Well, things are speeding up - only 12 years for justice to work. Usually it is 20 years to the guying dying of old age on death row while playing the appeals game.
I recently watched a show about some guy in England who killed his gal back in the 20s. He was found guilty and hung three months later. They didn't fool around in those days.
As a sidebar, in these days of DNA, it seems to me that if a guy can be released immediately because DNA proved he was innocent (rightly so), then the execution process should be speeded up by shortening the appeals process when DNA proves the guy guilty beyond any reasonable doubt.
Watching "Forensics File" sometimes ticks me off at the prosecutors when they let the murderer who is guilty (his DNA all over the place (and IN the body, in the case of rape)) plead guilty "to avoid the death penalty". If they have conclusive proof "there oughtta be a law" that precludes plea-bargaining in these cases.
There are perps that need to be expedited to the next level of Justice.
I would like to see any convicted murderer executed in the same manner as her/she performed their crime against their victims. That would be real justice and yes it would be cruel, but considering the level of violence performed by the convict it can no longer be judged as unusual. Too bad it has taken so long to give him the justice he deserves.
Protestor Anna Shockley said. “I think killing is always wrong.”...........
.........and the same sort of people scream that abortion on demand is OK, say from any girl 10 and over, partial birth abortion, NO PROBLEM! After all, it is a matter of PRIVACY, not the actual of death of a person.
These people baffle me. Liberalism is truly a mental disorder.
COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - The Corrections Department announced that James Earl Reed was executed at 11:27pm Friday.
(sniffle, weep, sniffle, weep, sniffle) Happy endings always make me cry.
Many executed criminals get to breathe oxygen for years
if not decades while they go through challenges or are
on a waiting list behind many others (will Scott Peterson
ever get his date with destiny...?)
In Boston, conservative talk host Howie Carr will mention
when Texas executes someone and he plays a bit of the country tune “God Bless Texas”. (MA, of course, no DP)
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Anna... you should pray for such a quick and virtually, painless death. His victims, I'm sure, would have preferred it to the evil he meted out.
James Earl Reed... may you burn forever in hell...
It happens every time there is an execution. Party Time on Free Republic. I find it inappropriate - rejoicing in the death of a human being. It should be a time for sober reflection on such things as the "wages of sin" and especially repentance of ones own sins and perhaps a realization - "There but for the grace of God..."
Let me anticipate the usual knee jerk reaction...
No. I am not opposed to the death penalty. I do find Biblical justification for it. And I have no sympathy for the criminal. He had many, many years of life which he denied to his victims.
But,the state is, in effect, acting in the place of God Almighty in legally taking a man's life. With this nation daily spitting in His face (what's the body count up to, 40,000,000 unborn dead?), I wonder if the Biblical justification I find for capital punishment still applies?
Flame suit on. Have at it!
I take solice in my Bible in the following passages
1] Under the 10 commandments “Thou shall NOT commit murder” not kill. This was misread by those wimps who would want us to all hold hands and sing around the camp fire.
2]Under Exodus 21:22-25, Anyone who strikes a man & kills him shall surely be put to death.... If a man schemes & kills another man deliberately, take him away from my altar & put him to death......
This come from my Concordia study bible, so everyone can know my referance...
Corrections: The problem has now been corrected.